⁶ For they were in three stories and did not have pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper level was ^[a]shortened more than the lower and middle levels from the ground up.

^6 (A)The side chambers were in three stories, one above the other, thirty chambers in each story; they rested on ^[a]ledges which were for the side chambers all around, that they might be supported, but ^(B)not fastened to the wall of the temple.

⁸ The doorway for the ^[a]middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.